The Problem of the Color Lines

Studies of Racism and Resistance

Bibliographic Data

ID2370296
AuthorsMoon-Kie Jung (0000-0001-8585-6438, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Moon‐kie Jung (University of Massachusetts Amherst, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume41
Issue2
Pages193-199
Publication date2015-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920514567268
OpenAlexW2019266916
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited35

This essay introduces the special issue, which originates from a two-day symposium on race and transnationalism. It proposes a particular angle from which to consider the following seven articles and the study of race and racism in general. In response to sociology and neighboring disciplines' mounting predictions of 'Black exceptionalism' and imminent assimilation of Asians and Latina/os into whiteness/non-Blackness, a two-part alternative approach is briefly suggested: (1) critically engage the most theoretically and politically challenging scholarship in Black studies (notably outside sociology) that asserts the singularity of anti-Black racism; and (2) think through the social positions of non-Black peoples of color in light of and not losing sight of the first part. An overview of the special issue follows

Aesthetics · Art · Critical race theory · Epistemology · Exceptionalism · Intersectionality · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Racialization · Racism · Resistance (ecology) · Scholarship · Sociology · Transnationalism · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society